Localization and in situ activities of homoacetogenic bacteria in the highly compartmentalized hindgut of soil-feeding higher termites (Cubitermes spp.)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 4497-4505

  Tholen, Anne ^a   Brune, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; FORMIC ACID; HYDROGEN;

ARTICLE; INSECT; INTESTINE; METHANOGENESIS; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN;

ARACHNIDA; CUBITERMES; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPTERA; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 0032856164     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.10.4497-4505.1999     Document Type: Article

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